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The organization Little People of America is asking an Illinois high school to change the name of the school’s mascot. The Freeburg High School sports teams have been known as the “Freeburg Midgets” since the 1930s.

“[It’s] kind of a derogatory, objectifying, dehumanizing term,” Gary Arnold, president of LPA, told . “If you have a family that happens to have a person with dwarfism down the road, you know, that’s going to create a very difficult environment for them to go to high school.”

School apparel is known as “midgetwear,” according to an . The organization says there are other schools across the country that use the mascot and it’s asking all of them to change. It singled out Freeburg because the town is near St. Louis, where LPA is currently holding a national conference.

Freeburg’s superintendent, Andrew Lehman, contends that the name is a “point of pride” in the town of 4,300. A local sportswriter gave the school’s basketball team the nickname in the 1930s, and it stuck. The school board doesn’t see it as offensive.

“That term can be very subjective. What’s offensive to one person or group of people is going to have a very different meaning to other people,” Lehman said.

The starting quarterback on the Liberty North (Kansas City, MO.) freshman football team will be catching a lot of attention this fall. For the first time in school history, a girl will be calling the shots.

Brooke Liebsch has been playing Pop Warner football for six years. " I used to play soccer and I didn’t like it," she told . "Then, one day, I caught a football and I’m like, I want to play football. Let’s go."

Making her the starter is such an obvious choice, coach Brian Rockers told WDAF, that it’s hardly gaining attention in town. He went as far as saying that it’s actually easier to coach her than some of the boys.

“Girls listen a lot better than guys do for some reason,” he said. “That’s just the way it is. She allows us to coach and she lets us coach her and she listens.”

She’s also willing to play any position on the field. If there’s a spot she prefers to avoid, it’s those traditionally given to females on high school teams, like placeholder and offensive line.

Frazier, a junior at Allen Park High School in Michigan, is a third baseman for the baseball team as well as the star point guard for the basketball team. His athleticism isn’t up for question—that sprint, that leap and then that catch … world class.

It’s that moment of suspension when a player goes flying over the dugout that makes this play so remarkable, especially when someone is able to topple over, then get back up and make a play, Frazier almost did just this.

Frazier made the catch and fired the ball back to second with the hopes of making a double play. The catch alone is award worthy — and people everywhere are sharing it.

Garcia was well-deserving of this honor with both her success on the field leading her team to a 26-2 record, and her commitment off the mound. Garcia maintained a 3.44 GPA, worked as a math tutor for her teammates and assisted in creating Golden League Gives Back, an initiative that helps the Grace Resource Center for the needy.

Josh Speidel's lifelong dream came true in January, when the Columbus North (Ind.) High School senior learned that he'd been selected to play on the Indiana boys basketball all-star team. It seemed a fitting end to a fantastic high school career for a star athlete who was reportedly being recruited to play at the University of Vermont.

Days later, Speidel's dream suddenly seemed impossible. Speidel suffered a traumatic brain injury in a two-car crash on Feb. 1. The crash left him in a coma, nearly a month passing before he opened his eyes.

The all-star game was the furthest thing from anyone's mind. Yet basketball quickly became part of his recovery routine. In March, six weeks after the accident, his parents told Indy Starthat he was slowly regaining consciousness. His attempts to speak were unintelligible, but he was showing signs that he understood what people were saying to him.

A travel baseball team associated with recently-crowned state champion Parkview (Lilburn, Ga.) High School is being investigated for a hazing incident.

The team is coached by the school's coaching staff and includes most of the same players as the school team, but is not funded by the school or officially associated with the school.

Given the close affiliation, though, the school is investigating.

According to WSB-2 in Atlanta, incoming freshmen were allegedly hazed by current juniors on the team (known as rising seniors). The incident happened at a hotel in Charleston, S.C., where the team was playing in a tournament last weekend.

Turning a triple play is impressive on its own. How about doing it while losing a cleat?

Kameron Lindsey, a freshman who plays shortstop at Colmesneil (Texas) High, was playing right next to second base, trying to hold the runner to a short lead. He was closer to the bag than the runner. When the batter sliced a line drive right at the pitcher, the runners at first and second took off.

The ball bounced high off the pitcher's glove, straight to a diving Lindsey. He made a clean catch and beat the baserunner back to second. That's two outs. Then he sent a clean throw to the first baseman to catch the runner there. Three outs.

It's hard to see in the video, but there was a fourth element to the play: Lindsey lost his shoe as he tagged second base.

He non-chalantly picks up the shoe as everyone starts cheering and running towards third base to celebrate.

A California high school baseball coach just made a case for all the managers who have ever stormed out of the dugout to argue a call.

Serrano (Phelan, Calif.) High held a 1-0 lead heading into the seventh inning of the state final game against South Torrance. South Torrance rallied back with an unearned run in the top of the inning, nearly taking the lead but eventually leaving the go-ahead run stranded at third, according to The San Bernardino County Sun.

Serrano loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the seventh, a golden opportunity to take back the run and the title. Daniel Brodie grounded to the second baseman, who flipped the ball to the shortstop to catch the runner heading to second. The shortstop threw it to first base for the double play.

A runner crossed homeplate, but it didn't matter. The double play negated the run. It looked like the game was heading to extra innings, until Serrano coach Joe Knowlton came out to argue that the shortstop's throw had pulled the first baseman off the bag.

A high school in Michigan has what might be the most dominant streak in high school sports. Brother Rice (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) has won every state lacrosse title since the Michigan High School Athletics Association started sponsoring the sport in 2005.

On Saturday, the Warriors added the school's 11th-straight title. Brother Rice defeated Detroit Catholic Central (Novi, Mich.), 16-7. The two schools have met in the finals five times. It looked a lot like previous title games in many ways, but one: This year's squad did it without a superstar leading the way.

"We don't have a superstar on this team," Brother Rice coach Ajay Chawla told MLive. "We have a lot of very, very good players and we're unselfish. That's what we've been preaching all year. You've got to look for the next shot, look for the next guy open ... They haven't been selfish all season."

In May, a Bay Area teacher wrote a letter to NBA MVP Steph Curry, praising Curry for being a role model, but asking him to please stay away from Mt. Eden High School in Hayward, Calif. The teacher, Matt Amaral, explained that many of his students dream of being professional athletes, while there are not enough adults telling them that they have a better chance of winning the lottery than of going pro – especially if they aren't working with private coaches and playing elite ball by the time they're in high school.

In an email to Yahoo Sports, a former Mt. Eden student responded. After attending Mt. Eden, Charlton Jimerson went on to graduate from the University of Miami, then played four seasons with the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners. This is his response: